Posted on 12/12/2012 7:07:59 PM PST by neverdem
John Boehner is a good man in a hard place. He has served in public office as a lifelong conservative, not a RINO. His position on the Obama tax increases has been better than almost any other Republican who has been speaking out lately, given the Obama/Democrat election victories -- close loopholes and deductions for $800 billion in new revenue over a decade, but no increases in rates.
But face it. Boehner is no match for Obama on the national stage. He cannot press the economic arguments articulately. He does not have a compelling personality. Obama is running circles around Boehner with outrageous falsehoods, and Boehner cannot raise a peep to challenge him. Boehner has managed to allow Obama to turn the Bush middle class tax cuts, passed by a Republican majority Congress over 10 years ago, into the Obama middle class tax cuts, supposedly opposed by the House majority Republicans.
Reagan-era Democrat Speaker Tip O'Neill used to say Reagan's budgets were dead on arrival. He used to counter Reagan proposals by saying they just could not get through the House. After the Reagan landslide reelection of 1984, O'Neill responded that the people had elected a Democrat House majority too, and they had as much right to pursue their policies in the House as Reagan had to pursue his policies as President. And O'Neill had a personality that was easily dismissive of questioners. But...
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Anyone can serve as Speaker!!!
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Steve Forbes could be named Speaker of the House. Or Larry Kudlow. Or Steve Moore. Or Paul Gigot. Or Grover Norquist. Or Rush Limbaugh. Or Sean Hannity. Or Mark Levin. Someone who can talk, explain, tutor, and at last who knows what he is talking about. How about R. Emmett Tyrrell? Hell, they could even bring Gingrich back...
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Aint that the truth.
Romney sucks.
Is Bob Michel still alive? The dhims would LOVE him... not that boner is anymore effective.
That's what I've been saying. Marginalize Obama by dealing with the Senate first. Make Reid deal with Obama, not Boehner.
-PJ
Not as tan - but way too much like Boehner!
Louis Gohmert!!
now that’s a really good idea!
As for naming a Speaker who is not a member of the House ...
The novelty of such an appointment would give us at least a few days “grace” with the traitorous and corrupt media.
Newt Gingrich, for example, could land some mortal blows against the federal beast and give some monumental speeches about Constitutional observance before the media had a chance to shut him down, if they could.
Yes, Newt - Newt - Newt.......
>>> John Boehner is a good man in a hard place. He has served in public office as a lifelong conservative, not a RINO.
He referred to Obamacare as “The Law of The Land”
I don’t give a damn if he was the 2nd coming of Ronald Reagan up to that point in his political career... (which he WASN’T!)
This cave of his was the LAST straw for me.
He’s a hob-knobbing conservative back stabbing RINO Coward!
Time to make his big tent an itsy bitsy one that the independant party will laugh at!
Walter Williams for Speaker of the House.
Evertime I hear Boner speaking it’s like his demeanor and half the time his vocals sound like he’s apologizing for having to speak in the first place. If he’s not crying.
Thanks, but I can’t; studying for an exam. I’ll check it out on Hulu or Youtube.
Thanks for those quotes from the Federalist Papers.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Chatter, chatter, chatter. Just replace him with someone who will really get the job done.
John Boehner is a good man in a hard place.
Lost me right there. Any good man would have NEVER agreed to the bill that put him in the hard place.
Boner shot his foot off and now he is trying to figure out how to put it back on.
Provisional military government? No, thanks. I don’t want the military involved in governing the country for any length of time.
This is an entertaining fantasy and nothing more.
The Republicans in the House are apparatchiks first and conservatives second (if at all). They will all dutifully fall into line behind Boehner.
golf course man, golf course.
That and bending over for obammy.
That cr*p about the $5 billion a year for pensions was about a payment concocted to balance the budget (See how well that worked) back in 2006. It was to be set aside somewhere(?) to pay for any postal retiree medical insurance premiums 75 years in the future!
In short it was and is total BS ~ NOBODY DOES THAT!
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